Gerson Goldhaber

Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Born	(1924-02-20)February 20, 1924[1][2][3] Chemnitz, Germany[1][2][3]
Died	July 19, 2010(2010-07-19) (aged 86)[2][3] Berkeley, California[3]
Nationality (legal)	Germany[1][2][3]
Citizenship	United States[2]
Alma mater	M.Sc Hebrew University of Jerusalem[1][2][3] Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison[1][2][3]
Known for	Charm Meson Discovery,[1][2][3] Dark Energy Discovery[1][2][3]
Spouse(s)	Sulamith Goldhaber Judith Margoshes
Awards	Panofsky Prize[1][2][3]
Scientific career
Fields	Particle Physics, Cosmology[1][2][3]
Institutions	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[1][2][3] University of California, Berkeley[1][2]
Academic advisors	M.Sc Thesis Advisor Ernst Alexander[1]

Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark.^[4] He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project,^[1] and was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.^[5]